{"id":162151,"date":"2026-09-02T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/02\/patent-litigations-most-famous-judge-makes-his-biglaw-move\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:42:31","slug":"patent-litigations-most-famous-judge-makes-his-biglaw-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/02\/patent-litigations-most-famous-judge-makes-his-biglaw-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Litigation\u2019s Most Famous Judge Makes His Biglaw Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[I] really missed the counselor side of being a lawyer. I think I could be a much better counselor now than I was \u200bbefore I went on the bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> <\/em>Former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright<\/a> of the Western District of Texas, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning his decision to join A&O Shearman as an intellectual property litigation partner in Austin, Texas. Albright\u2019s courtroom became the country\u2019s most prominent venue for patent litigation during his time on the bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[I] really missed the counselor side of being a lawyer. I think I could be a much better counselor now than I was \u200bbefore I went on the bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> <\/em>Former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright<\/a> of the Western District of Texas, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning his decision to join A&O Shearman as an intellectual property litigation partner in Austin, Texas. Albright\u2019s courtroom became the country\u2019s most prominent venue for patent litigation during his time on the bench.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. [I] really missed the counselor side of being a lawyer. I think I could be a much better counselor now than I was \u200bbefore I went on the bench. \u2014 Former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas, in comments given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-nyr44L.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}